%0 Conference Proceedings
%T One-of-a-Kind Production (OKP) Planning and Control: An Empirical Framework for the Special Purpose Machines Industry
%+ Università degli Studi di Brescia = University of Brescia (UniBs)
%+ University of Bergamo
%A Adrodegari, Federico
%A Bacchetti, Andrea
%A Sicco, Alessandro
%A Pirola, Fabiana
%A Pinto, Roberto
%Z Part VI: Services, Supply Chains and Operations
%< avec comité de lecture
%( IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
%B 19th Advances in Production Management Systems (APMS)
%C Rhodes, Greece
%Y Christos Emmanouilidis
%Y Marco Taisch
%Y Dimitris Kiritsis
%I Springer
%3 Advances in Production Management Systems. Competitive Manufacturing for Innovative Products and Services
%V AICT-398
%N Part II
%P 630-637
%8 2012-09-24
%D 2012
%R 10.1007/978-3-642-40361-3_80
%K One-of-a-Kind Production (OKP)
%K Engineer To Order (ETO)
%K Special Purpose Machines Industry
%K Production Planning & Control (PPC)
%Z Computer Science [cs]Conference papers
%X In this paper, we focus on the One-of-a-Kind Production (OKP) industry, where each product is designed and manufactured based on specific customer requirements to a large extent, according to an Engineer To Order (ETO) approach. This research has been carried out among the “SIGI-X” project, funded by the Italian Ministry of Economic Development (MISE). The paper illustrates an empirical study on the state-of-the-art of information systems supporting the leading processes in OKP companies. Through a set of 21 case studies in Italian companies producing special machines, we aim to: identify and investigate strengths and weaknesses of the main OKP business processes; analyze the ICT support and its level of integration among the different ICT solutions; identify levers for improvement, concerning organizational, methodological and informatics aspects; build a practical framework that could define and link the main processes in order to obtain a sort of guideline useful for re-engineering the processes, and laying the foundation for a new integrated ICT business template for OKP companies. The lack of support of three fundamental tasks such as project management, planning and cost control underlines that there is substantial room for improvement under the ICT support perspective. Finally, the development of an integrated IT environment to support (in particular) project management and planning activities, specifically addressed to OKP context, would help these companies to improve their performance and competitiveness.
%G English
%Z TC 5
%Z WG 5.7
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%2 https://inria.hal.science/hal-01470678/file/978-3-642-40361-3_80_Chapter.pdf
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%U https://inria.hal.science/hal-01470678
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